Trump picked JD Vance as his VP pick. A bit of a surprise for me. vance is 39 years old and has been a Senator for 18 months longer than me. Of course, I jest but obviously not chosen for his experience. Once a “Never Trump” Republican, has since become a loyal follower of Trump.
By comparison, he makes Lindsay Graham look consistent in his beliefs. Vance once liked a tweet that said Trump committed “serial sexual assault,”. He called trump “one of USA’s most hated, villainous, douchey celebs,”. He since-removed a set of tweets, harshly criticized Trump’s response to the deadly 2017 White nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia — something Vance now defends Trump over.
Vance in February 2016 privately wondered whether Trump was “America’s Hitler,” and a few months later wrote in The Atlantic that Trump was “cultural heroin.”
The freshman senator from Ohio won his election in 2022 funded heavily by pro-Trump tech mogul Peter Thiel.
It appears that this pick does not expand their reach but just double downs on MAGA. Unsure if this means that they are so confident that they don’t need to expand their reach.